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EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable
Nobo writes "CCP's latest major patch to the EVE-Online client, Trinity, comes with an optional DX9-enhanced graphics patch that dramatically improves the visual quality of the in-game graphics through remade models, textures, and HDR. It also has an unfortunate bug: the incredibly stupid choice of boot.ini as a game configuration file, coupled with an errant extra backslash in the installer configuration. The result is that anyone who installs the enhanced graphics patch overwrites the windows XP c:\boot.ini file with the EVE client configuration file, bricking the machine on the next boot. Discussion in a couple of forums threads is becoming understandably heated."
Lucky for me I gave Eve Online about 6 months ago ^.^ I one of those people has recently got a new PC and 'downgrade' to XP. Linden Labs (creators of Second Life), I thank you so much.....
Because it's a home computer and the user bought and paid for and owns the damned thing. At work, boot.ini should not ba accessible to the user; he's just the user. At home he should have access to every goddamned bit.
What you're asking is like saying "why is the wiring in your house accessable to the homeowner? He could get killed!"
I bet you vote Democrat (or its equivalent if you're non-USian)
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
.... or so it seems so far to me... about three weeks in.
> The concern that I have is how did this get past the QA testers at CCP and into a production build?
And that's the rub. Not that the game isn't good and concept, and not that the working bits aren't pretty awesome. But there are so many issues that should never have made it through QA testing, much less beta and onto a release.
Haha though.... And *I* was a bit miffed when I found out that they had left Mac users in the lurch entirely, with no enhanced graphics at all. Better that, I guess, than bricking the computer!
But seriously.... WTF. As much as the EVE community will go into hysterics when you mention "those *pther* MMOs, we don't see these things happening when Blizzard patches, expands, or upgrades World of Warcraft. All of the new WoW content is available for BOTH windows AND Macintosh on patch/expansion day.... none of this "We'll give you the new game logic, but not the new content" business. And I NEVER had as many problems with a Blizzard online game, even when I bought Diablo II and WoW fresh out of the stores at version 1.0, as the EVE client gives me. There's a laundry list of so-far-unaddressed bugs (even in Trinity), that goes right down to the keyboard mapping being broken!!! (Seriously... EVE swaps the function of the command and control keys on me WTFH!?!?!?)
As much as I actually dislike the WoW experience, and think EVE is a better game.... in concept.... Blizzard sure appears to be a much better company, with a much Much MUCH better engineering and QA department.
cya,
john
Imagine all the people...